Is being bad good?
In the walking dead, it seems that there is a theme. Being 'bad' benefits you very greatly, while being the good guy might make you feel good but makes things more difficult for you.
In season 2, Clementine, the former moral compass, gets choices to be bad or good....only being bad seems to be the good choice, sometimes. For instance, if you steal the watch, you're rewarded with connecting to Nick more. If you ask Rebecca 'who's baby is it?' you actually learn that she knows for sure that it's Carver's in episode 2. It seems like being bad as Clementine sometimes does more good than bad. Am I the only one that finds that odd?
In season 2, Clementine, the former moral compass, gets choices to be bad or good....only being bad seems to be the good choice, sometimes. For instance, if you steal the watch, you're rewarded with connecting to Nick more. If you ask Rebecca 'who's baby is it?' you actually learn that she knows for sure that it's Carver's in episode 2. It seems like being bad as Clementine sometimes does more good than bad. Am I the only one that finds that odd?
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I guess if we're talking strictly from a story development perspective, maybe, but that's more because being bad tends to lead to some kind of conflict, and conflict tends to equal a better or more memorable story. For instance, even though it means Lee looks like an asshole, I love picking the threatening option when dealing with Vernon and the others because the entire mood changes and becomes a little more engrossing to me than if I had just played a nice guy and calmed everything down. Another example is picking the option to tell Christa at the start of the episode that they should just keep going despite Omid's pain, leading to the rather tense and interesting argument between Kenny and Christa that sets up a lot more conflict between the two.
Again, not necessarily "good", just different.
"In the walking dead, it seems that there is a theme. Being "bad" benefits you very greatly,"
This would be fine if you mentioned later that it isn't in season 1 at all. But you don't. So I was bringing that up, and then saying the only times that I think being bad is good. They just happen to coincide with yours.
Those examples from season 1 don't actually provide 'good' results. Interesting results, yes, but not good. I'm talking about how in season 2 sometimes choices that are blatantly wrong to do end up giving positive results, like you did something good when you really didn't. There haven't been many of those choices yet, but I think they're very interesting.
Well, there are plenty of times in season 1 where it shows being bad is beneficial. Just not bad choices that pretend they were good choices. For instance, leaving the girl to die to the zombies at the beginning of episode 3 in season 1. It's obviously morally wrong, but you get a lot more time to get all the supplies out of the house. But in season 2 there's things like taking the watch. You rob someone and get to become closer friends with the person you robbed because of it. xD
I do understand what you mean now, though, especially as it pertains to the Nick scenario. But as was said, those choices are still few. We'll see if there are any more.
If you don't ask who's baby it is, Rebecca later says she is worried it's not Alvin's. If you do ask, then she says she knows it's not Alvin's. So it's brought up by her anyways, so it is indeed opening up that she chooses to tell you more. She could have just as easily said she doesn't know regardless of whether or not Clementine asks her who's baby it is.
Yes, there aren't very many of them, but I do wonder if there will be more.
I'll list some of the more important ones. Trying to think of all of them would probably take quite a while.
Leaving the girl to die to the zombies at the beginning of episode 103 gives you more time to collect all of the supplies, where if you kill her to put her out of her misery sooner you get much less time and it is actually very difficult to get all of the supplies.
Stealing from the stranger comes back to bite you in the ass, but there was seriously no reason to expect that would happen from a realistic standpoint, and everyone else steals from him anyways, so stealing from the campman is a good choice(if you do, Clementine gets a hoodie for when it gets cold, so it does benefit her more).
Siding with Larry in episode 1 is actually right, from a logical standpoint, but wrong from a moral standpoint. And by that I mean saying "If he's bitten then we'll do what you say", not "Oh shit we have to throw him out lol fuck you Kenny your kid must be bitten".
Killing Andy and Danny is actually a good example of a bad choice that turns good. I guess I actually lied, I did think of one. Because if you leave them alive it's actually a worse punishment, they both want you to kill them and Andy even breaks down and sounds like he starts crying if you leave him alive, they also both presumably die to zombies if you leave them alive, which is a worse fate than the instant death brought to them by Lee. So, while it might seem like killing them is a bad choice at first, one could argue it's actually a good choice.
Is good the new soon? d: